In the Media: C. Edwin Baker
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Homeowners are rigging their homes with cameras and posting footage of robberies on YouTube. "It has to be seen as a pure benefit from the perspective of crime fighting," says media law professor Ed Baker, at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
(9/3/2009).
Christian Science Monitor.
- "Huge actual layoffs of journalists as well as threatened closures of towns' only daily are a major threat to democracy," C. Edwin Baker, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, told a congressional subcommittee. "When people are reading newspapers, corruption goes down." (4/22/2009).
Scripps Howard.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Congressional legislation to protect reporters from being compelled to reveal confidential sources needs to clarify who qualifies as a reporter, no easy task in the fast-evolving new media marketplace. Penn Law Professor C. Edwin Baker favors a definition that goes beyond reporting for traditional print and broadcast media. He notes that lower courts have offered various definitions but that the Supreme Court has tried to avoid defining the "press."
(3/19/2009).
National Journal.
- A targeted federal tax credit could help newspapers hire more journalists, instead of laying them off, and reverse the press's downward spiral, Professor C. Edwin Baker writes in an op-ed. (1/16/2009).
Seattle Times.
- Professor of Law and Communication C. Edwin Baker discusses how France’s legislative assembly action to address anorexia by making “it illegal to publicly incite extreme thinness -- on penalty of imprisonment” … “would have to be much less vague and limited to commercial speech only” to pass “constitutional muster” in the U.S. (4/16/2008).
Conde Nast Portfolio.com .
- "All of the democratic values at stake favor the dispersal of media over consolidation," comments Professor C. Edwin Baker on the FCC ruling allowing some newspapers to own radio and TV stations. (12/21/2007).
Christian Science Monitor .
- Professor C. Edwin Baker argues that dispersed media ownership serves democratic values in his (9/10/2007).
Seattle Times Op-Ed .
- Professor C. Edwin Baker says at a FCC hearing, "Consolidation of media ownership puts news decisions into too few hands. Encouraging diverse media ownership, particularly local ownership, will prevent concentration of power, which is bad for democracy." Portland Press Herald.
(6/29/2007).
- In reaction to Britney Spears' unauthorized image on an outdoor board, Professor C. Edwin Baker says that when "used for a commercial purpose, most states give the person whose image it is some degree of rights in that image so that someone else can't use it." (6/19/2007).
St. Petersburg Times .
- Law Professor C. Edwin Baker addresses media ownership and media markets. Toronto Star. (1/26/2007).
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- Commenting on the libel suit brought by a former prosecutor against the Chicago Tribune, Professor C. Edwin Baker says that "Grand jury investigations are secret, and the result is that honest mistakes can be expected because the reporter must gather from sources whose story cannot be routinely or fully checked." Forbes (5/5/2005).
- In response to the termination of a Starbucks employee for comments on his blog, Professor Edwin Baker says, "Employees have never had freedom to engage in free speech or political activities vis-a-vis private employers. The first amendment prevents the government, not your employer, from abridging your freedom of speech." The New York Post (1/2/2005).
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